The real historical background of the film

Angelita 2022-03-16 09:01:04

There are mainly two sources: The first is the case of the International Commercial Credit Bank (BCCI). BCCI is a Pakistani bank. Found to be used to support terrorism, criminal organizations and drug lords, U.S. Senator Kerry has led the investigation into the CIA's illegal financing of American anti-communist armed forces since the late 1980s, and finally found that the CIA manipulated Noriega and others through the bank to oppose activities, suspected of drug trafficking and money laundering. A similar series of investigations culminated in the bank's closure. http://book.sina.com.cn/longbook/1098855940_kelizhuan/71.shtml The second is the Banco Ambrosiano case. The letter was founded in Italy by an Italian bank that was found to be engaged in providing donations to politicians, providing money laundering services for the Mafia, providing financial channels for the Vatican to fund the Catholic opposition in Eastern Europe, and financing the Sandino Armed Front in Nicaragua, among others. The bank chairman was found hanged under London's Black Brothers Bridge at the climax of the investigation. The name of the murdered Italian arms dealer Umberto Calvini was probably inspired by Roberto Calvi, chairman of Emblem.

So please smart people don't use conspiracy theories to bombard this film. Not everything you don't like and don't want to accept are conspiracy theories.

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Extended Reading
  • Sammy 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    Not a good movie, but not a bad movie either. The climax and ups and downs of the plot are too few, making it impossible for people to enter the situation with the plot. The relationship between the military-military conflict in the third world and the financial control is actually a good idea, but the description is too small, and a bunch of nouns and foreign countries that I can’t remember are added. Faces, it is easy to lose the main axis of the plot... In addition, the exposure of the killer and the difficulty of changing the plot are too ox. The most worth mentioning is that the review of the killer's formation is great!

  • Eduardo 2022-03-24 09:01:59

    NaomiWatts is simply a vase..

The International quotes

  • [first lines]

    Thomas Schumer: Listen, I'm from the Bronx, so you need to keep it simple. Why is the bank buying all this missile-guidance stuff from Calvini? - I don't get it.

  • [last lines]

    Jonas Skarssen: [to Salinger, who is on the verge of shooting him] Wait, wait, wait. Executing me won't change anything. There will be another 100 bankers to take my place. Everything will continue. The only thing you'll succeed in doing is to satisfy your bloodlust. And you know it.

    Calvini's hitman: [after shooting down Skarssen, taking Salinger's gun, and finishing Skarssen off with it] Grazie.

    [first closing credits are shown over news articles that demonstrate the truth of Skarssen 's words: business of banking and arms deals continuing as usual]